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Users / Re: VFD front panel display (Antec Fusion)

« on: February 03, 2008, 12:39:19 am »

Lol! Then what's not to worry!?

Now you're saying "yeah, tough luck, you bought a useless case" Well, I got the vfd to work now, still have nooo idea how to get that IR receiver to function, though...

*Edit: I got the VFD to work only on the system itself, so I can output my own messages to it, but nothing more (linuxmce doesn't support it, as he said...)

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Users / Re: VFD front panel display (Antec Fusion)

« on: February 02, 2008, 10:16:00 am »

Oh my.. I just bought this case yesterday!

I'm gonna install it tomorrow, so it doesn't work well?

Head over to the ubuntu-forums, I know I saw a thread there which solved *all* the problems (that's why I decided to buy that case

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Users / Re: Newtork problems (Ports and all)

« on: February 01, 2008, 12:05:31 am »

Ok, it's quite a messy post (thread even) so I'll try to sum it up

I'm not interested in running 2 DHCPs! I actually want the router to JUST give the core internet access and send out a wifi signal... (So, in some way, this *router* should more act like a switch, a switch which provides access to the internet)

I want to do this because there are some MDs & orbiters that I can not connect to my core directly, they're too far apart to lay in another cable, so I want to connect them to the router instead.

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Users / Re: Newtork problems (Ports and all)

« on: January 31, 2008, 11:41:03 pm »

Thanks for the help, and I'm afraid I'm going to give you a bit of a headache

You said "The Core/Hybrid Internal address will have to be on a DIFFERENT subnet as your router/core external interface. " but that's just what I do not want ...

One half of the house is going to be connected to the hybrid through a switch (I ordered today, together with lots of other stuff, including a new cpu, motherboard, 3D card, case, ... I just wanted to throw that in somewhere but the other half will HAVE to be connected to the real router (as will all the wifi stuff) and I don't want them to be on different subnets because there are a few MDs among them..

I *kind of* succeeded at this, but it's still rather flaky...

Here are the network settings:
EXTERNAL_IFACE     eth0
EXTERNAL_IP    192.168.0.2
EXTERNAL_NETMASK    255.255.255.0
EXTERNAL_DHCP    0
INTERNAL_IFACE    eth0:0
INTERNAL_MAC    00:16:17:73:7C:01
INTERNAL_IP    192.168.0.2
INTERNAL_NETMASK    255.255.255.0
GATEWAY    192.168.0.1
DNS1    192.168.0.1
DNS2    192.168.0.1

192.168.0.1 is the real router and now they're both on the same subnet...

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Users / Re: Creating A Mirror

« on: January 31, 2008, 08:09:48 pm »

600-800k? Aah, such divine speeds!

I used to have nice speeds, 550kb/s at best, when I lived in the city. But now I'm back in this farmer-like-village, so 300kb/s really is the best I can do...

Being surrounded by nature is fun, but *daaammnnn* my adsl speeds!

Errr, I'm going off-topic here

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Users / Re: Anyone think that the forum is missing some images or say a background?

« on: January 31, 2008, 08:06:06 pm »

I'm afraid I can't show much sympathy as I'm gonna say "Sucks to be you..."

I'm seeing everything fine over here, pictures and all!

Let's try some basic check-ups any helpdesk would suggest you, hehe: have you tried cleaning out your cookies? Have you rebooted the computer yet? Or (a personal favorite) are you sure you're connected to the internet?

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Users / Re: Newtork problems (Ports and all)

« on: January 31, 2008, 08:02:16 pm »

Hmm, I have turned the firewall on the hybrid off, but that didn't help. I also can't completely turn the firewall of my real router off, but I *can* put a computer into a "DMZ" (Demilitarized zone, haha) I've tried this on my hybrid *and* on my computer, but still no luck ...

And, errr, I do have multiple ip's actually:

I'm using a static ip as my "external network card eth0" (the one from the real router, as I turned that DHCP-server off) and that IP address is the same one as on my internal network card...

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Users / Re: Creating A Mirror

« on: January 31, 2008, 07:54:37 pm »

And still the best (not to mention most efficient) way to mirror, is to simply seed the torrent.  Having a few good solid dedicated seeders (instead of mirrors) should solve any possible speed issues instantly, better then any mirror ever could.

Apart from that, a bunch of people have reported broken downloads from plain mirrors in the past and having to download over and over again, this problem is non-existant with torrents and you don't have the hassle of having to reassemble parts only to discover the md5sum doesn't match. 

I have thought of the same thing over and over again! There would be no more slow torrents nor would there be such a big strain on the mirrors as it would all be spread out evenly *and* everybody who downloads it would be giving *something* back, no matter how fast they are, every bit helps... Literally!

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Users / Newtork problems (Ports and all)

« on: January 31, 2008, 09:56:07 am »

Hello again,

I've set up my temporary hybrid (it's only a celeron 2,66 ghz in a very old case). It's connected to my real router, but I can't connect all the devices to the hybrid directly. I still wish to use my real router as an access point, and I even want to connect some other devices to it.

Now, this all kind of works, my computer is getting an IP address from the hybrid, but then I stumbled on to a real problem: I can't open my ports!

I tried opening a port in the real router, and I even disabled the firewall on the hybrid, but I just can't get through...

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Installation issues / Re: DVD vs CD Installation

« on: January 29, 2008, 08:56:37 am »

Another DVD pro is that you can *completely* install a system, where when you use the CDs you need to have Kubuntu installed already. (Err, I hope I got that right this time )

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Installation issues / Re: Non-bootable CDs (Downloaded Torrents)

« on: January 28, 2008, 11:24:28 pm »

Huh!

I did think this possible, because some people were talking about installing from an original KDE installation, but when I looked at the LMCE demo-video I really did see the CD or DVD boot, and I saw the choice "Install LMCE" (or something like it)

I know that was version 7.04, but I can't immagine why this wouldn't be there anymore in 07.10 ...

edit: And it all seems so simple now; the CDs aren't bootable, the DVD is ...

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Installation issues / Non-bootable CDs (Downloaded Torrents)

« on: January 28, 2008, 10:13:14 pm »

I just burned 2 Linux MCE CDs but ... CD1 won't boot! I burned it on 2 different CDs now and I also tried to run them on my dvd and cdrw drive, it just won't boot!

I couldn't find anything on this in the forums so I assume I'm the lucky first to encounter this strange problem? (All my other CDs boot without hesitation ...)

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Users / Re: Home Automation Protocols (X10, Insteon, Zwave, ...)

« on: January 28, 2008, 09:39:52 pm »

Too bad we can't just 'all agree'

Here, here!

From Pal, ntsc, secam, atsc to centimeters, inches, miles & kilometers.. Ounces, pounds, kilo's & grams - driving on the right side of the road, driving on the left side of the road.

Too many "formats" for one small world

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Users / Re: Home Automation Protocols (X10, Insteon, Zwave, ...)

« on: January 28, 2008, 05:40:36 pm »

Ah, neutral ... and ground... they're different..

Lol, I'm going to stop talking about electricity, I know barely enough to install a light

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Users / Re: Home Automation Protocols (X10, Insteon, Zwave, ...)

« on: January 28, 2008, 04:39:56 pm »

Hehe, I sent them a mail too... I hope we're not the only ones planning on buying plcbus devices from them

Ah, and that does make sense in some way, but still, lighting & appliances only have phase 1, 2 and neutral..

Errr, I'll ask our electrician about this, he's coming around tomorrow.